Daily News Roundup - July 25, 2015
Trouble in the USOC No Plans to Decide on Olympics Until Review Is Complete, Baker Says (Boston Globe) USOC Asks Massachusetts Governor for His Stance on Boston '24 (AP) Column: USOC Needs to Dump Boston While There's Still Time (AP) Exclusive: USOC Set to Make Decision on Boston 2024 on Monday with Los Angeles Ready to Step In (Insde the Games) USOC Official Gets Caught Up in Olympics Fervor Online (Boston Globe) #OlympicsDebate The Missing Factor from the Boston 2024 Debate
Daily News Roundup - July 22, 2015
U.S. Olympic Committee Adds Board Member Amid Struggle with Boston 2024 Bid (LA Times) Boston 2024's Media Center Continues to be a Mystery (BostInno) Boston 2024 & the Implications of an 'Immovable' Olympic Deadline (BostInno) Rep. Richard Neal: 'Irresponsible' to Plan Olympics without Statewide Involvement (WGBH News) A Biased and Clearly Uninformed Update on Boston's Olympic Bid (Radio BDC) Boston Herald Radio: Tito Jackson (Boston Herald) Campaign Donations Pour in for To
Daily News Roundup - July 8, 2015
Mayor Wants to Push Forward with Redeveloping Widett, Even if Olympics Don't Materialize (Boston Globe) Revised Cost of Tokyo 2020 Stadium Approved (ESPN) Rep. Lynch on Iraq: No Way Forward; On Widett Circle: Bad Idea (WGBH News) Spike in Olympic Stadium Costs Highlights Shifting Budget Risks (BBJ) Olympic Organizers Ponder Strategy for Boosting Support (Boston Globe) Squantum Point Park Run (Imgur) Group Calls Olympic Spending Ban 'Smoke and Mirrors' (Boston Herald) And righ
Daily News Roundup - June 17, 2015
Steve Pagliuca: Budget Surplus from Boston Olympics 'Doable' (Boston Herald) Quack tells you drug he's selling is a miracle cure. Boston 2024 Works to Add Donors, Retain Early Backers (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 Wants to Hold Beach Volleyball in Quincy (Boston Globe) Remember the Boston 2024 meeting in Quincy? Neither do we. Because it didn't happen. Boston Revises Bid in Effort to Host 2024 Olympics (NYT) Hamburg to Hold Public Vote on 2024 Olympic Bid in November (NBC Sports
Daily News Roundup - June 6, 2015
Is the Grand Prix Taking Boston for a Ride? (Boston Mag) Marty Walsh's Bad Habits (Blue Mass Group) Parks Group Builds Its List of Olympics Questions (JP Gazette) Experts: Olympics Limit Freedoms, Boost Debt (JP Gazette) A report on our event from Tuesday Boston 2024 Skips Full White Stadium Costs (JP Gazette) Slow, Imprecise, Expensive: Boston Olympcis Requests Show a City Badly in Need of Sunshine (MuckRock) Boston 2024's Friday News Dump Donations from Ex-Chair John Fish H
Daily News Roundup – May 9, 2015
Boston 2024 Changes Franklin Park Plan (JP Gazette) London Protester: Olympics Damaged Park (JP Gazette) Anti-Olympics Speakers to Talk Displacement, Surveillance (JP Gazette) The Globe’s I-93 Off-Ramp (CommonWealth) Marathon Rescue Hero Joins Anti-Olympics Protest (JP Gazette) Newly Released Boston 2024 Budget Details Contained in UMass Records (Boston Magazine) What if Girding for Climate Change Were an Olympic Event? (Boston Globe) 500 Days Out, Rio Risks Olympics Cost Sur
Daily News Roundup – April 28, 2015
The Motive Driving Olympics Push in Boston (Boston Globe) Michelle Kwan’s 2024 Bid Boost (Boston Herald) Is this satire? U.S. Rep Capuano Blasts Boston 2024’s ‘Lack of Transparency’ (Boston Herald) Boston 2024 Pushes to Keep Docs Secret (Boston Herald) Amendment to Bar Public Funds for Olympics Fails in House (State House News Service) Capuano: Public to Need ‘A Little Proof’ about Any Olympic Cost (Boston Herald) No Boston Olympics Will Host a Second Meeting (BostInno) #Gent
The Ever-Changing and Always Vague Definition of “No Public Funds” for #Boston2024
The latest statewide poll on Boston’s 2024 Summer Olympics bid found Massachusetts residents opposed to the bid by a slim margin of 46% to 43%. When asked if they would support having the city submit a bid “with the requirement that no public money be used for the operation of the Games,” Massachusetts residents chose yes 56% to 37%. The toplines hide some very interesting statewide contrasts. The “no public money” qualifier had significant impact in many regions of the stat
Daily News Roundup – April 23, 2015
Keller @ Large: We Want Detailed Boston 2024 Olympics Plan (CBS Local) Championship Pedigree to Join Boston 2024 Board (Boston Globe) Many of whom don’t live in or even near Boston Who’s on the Boston 2024 Board? (Boston Globe) Editorial: Stellar Board, Big Questions (Boston Herald) Low-income Residents Worry about Olympics’ Repercussions (Boston Globe) Small Crowd at Easton Forum Split on Boston 2024 Olympic Bid (The Enterprise) Boston 2024 Olympics Timeline (WGBH News) Broo
Daily News Roundup – April 11, 2015
Where City Councilors Stand on the Olympics (JP Gazette) Franklin Park Gets Key Role, But No Answers, in Olympic Debate (JP Gazette) Olympics Bid Focus Shifting from Fish (Boston Globe) Sacrifice, Thrill Discussed at Forum on Boston Olympics Bid (Wicked Local – Melrose) Peter Lucas: Maria’s Right: Torch Plan for Another Olympics Study (Lowell Sun) USOC’s Blackmun Hopes Better Communication, Decisions Help Change Tone in Boston (Sports Business Daily) “Beachhead”? #CityCouncil